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" I got sober because I was worried I was going to die next year. "
Matthew Perry
Got
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Because
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" There was a time when I wasn't working a lot. It ebbs and flows. Mostly I was just living my life and playing 'Fallout 3,' a very fun game. "
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" I have a huge interest in hockey because I grew up in Canada, where it's kind of the law that you love hockey. "
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" If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50. "
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" I have a well-documented history of trouble with intimacy. "
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" I need a woman to have a quirky sense of humor. There's a bunch of jokes I use, and if she doesn't get them, she's probably not for me. "
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" I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered. "
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" I don't need to be reminded that I was on 'Friends.' I remember - some of it, anyway. "
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" As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband. "
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" I'm just glad that the whole John Wayne persona of a man is sort of old school now, because I'd never be able to do that. If that was the going rate today, I wouldn't be working. "
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" My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it. "
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" I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be. "
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" Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink. "
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" My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl. "
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" I don't have a very 'masculine' taste in music. I get a lot of heat from my friends about that. "
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" The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers. "
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" Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying. "
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" If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible. "
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" I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to. "
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